Monday, November 7, 2011

JUST CALL ME BETTY

Betty Crocker that is. Spent Friday baking and Saturday decorating large princess tiara cookies to help my friend who was hosting a baby shower. She wanted to give the cookies as party favors. She asked if I would help and I said I'll do even better, I'd do all of it, just bring me the ingredients to make the cookies and icing. So she did. When she was leaving she said oh, I need 45 cookies. Huh?! Oh crap I thought. Did you say 4 or 5 by any chance? Nope, 45. Took 3 bags of cookie mix and a double batch of royal icing, but they got done. It was my 1st time working with royal icing so I was kind of winging it. Not my best decorating effort, but she was pleased with the way they looked and that's what matters. It was so nice for me to be able to help a friend instead of the other way around for once. Very glad to do it.

Then I made a broccoli casserole for a luncheon at my church. I serve on the bereavement committee and sometimes we also help with the food for special luncheons, like today's for All Souls Day (at least I think that's what it was for.) I find getting in the kitchen relaxing so actually I enjoyed the cooking and baking I did. If I was really smart I would have saved some back for myself, but I didn't. Oh well, just gives me an excuse to make another casserole. My great aunt's recipe, it rocks.

I've noticed Colby isn't quite back to baseline from before his hospitalization. Doesn't take much for his heart rate to go up or his oxygen to go down. Hmmm, what could explain this? Seasonal allergy goop causing respiratory issues? He just needs more time after such a long hospital stay? This is his new baseline? Who knows. I learned long ago you can't figure out SMA. It is what it is and you have to deal with the situation at hand. So that's what we'll do. Maybe when we go to Cincinnati this week and Colby has a sleep study, that will give us some answers. We did have a very busy week last week. Maybe he just needs some extra rest. The school corporation doesn't have school Monday and Tuesday of this week so he'll be able to chill before we head to Cincy on Wednesday and Thursday.

My friends have been working their bahunas off getting our upcoming benefit ready. They had another "Colby's Committee" meeting today and I joined this one. A lot of work has been done and there's still a lot to do. I want to help in some way, after all, Colby and I are the ones receiving the benefits of this event. I'm not exactly a sit on the sidelines kind of girl, it's my nature to jump in and help. So far they have 10 or 11 vendors for the bazaar. The silent auction items are shaping up, too, lots of cool basket themes. I'm very impressed with how much work they've done already. I have the most loving, wonderful, supportive, giving, helpful bunch of family and friends EVER. I'll post more info on the benefit in the next day or 2.

So I've started exercising again. Haven't done that since around the middle of August. I have 10 or so aerobics tapes around here. Decided to start out slow so I put in the shortest, easiest of the videos, a little 32-minute workout of toning and cardio. No pushups, no crunches, no step aerobics, no big deal, right? OMG thought I was going to collapse before it was over and I'm not kidding! I didn't know which was going to give out first, my wobbling, burning thighs, my right hip or my pounding heart! It was awful but I struggled, grunted and cussed my way through it. Did the elliptical today. Can't wait to see what muscles ache tomorrow.

That's all for now I guess. I'd better get to bed. Nitey-night blog followers.

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